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<blockquote data-quote="Hussar" data-source="post: 7671146" data-attributes="member: 22779">Yup, that would largely go a long way to fixing Planescape for me.&nbsp; Thing is though, without alignment, the Great Wheel stops making a whole lot of sense.&nbsp; Why does someone go to one afterlife and not another?&nbsp; The divides between the planes are, IMO, largely arbitrary and based on alignment, which, itself, is a largely arbitrary division of morality.&nbsp; So, again, there's no discussion of morality.&nbsp; No examination of morality.&nbsp; If you do X, you go to Plane Y.&nbsp; Beings from Plane Y act in X manner and if they don't they get shunted to Plane Z.&nbsp; Never minding that I find D&amp;D a very poor vehicle in general for this sort of thing.&nbsp; Like I said, there are much better skill systems for adjudicating extended debates, and that sort of thing.&nbsp; The objective alignment is a big roadblock, but, the system itself, IMO, doesn't lend itself to what I would want to get out of this kind of game.&nbsp; I guess at the end of the day, I can honestly say that it's just not for me.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Hussar, post: 7671146, member: 22779"] Yup, that would largely go a long way to fixing Planescape for me. Thing is though, without alignment, the Great Wheel stops making a whole lot of sense. Why does someone go to one afterlife and not another? The divides between the planes are, IMO, largely arbitrary and based on alignment, which, itself, is a largely arbitrary division of morality. So, again, there's no discussion of morality. No examination of morality. If you do X, you go to Plane Y. Beings from Plane Y act in X manner and if they don't they get shunted to Plane Z. Never minding that I find D&D a very poor vehicle in general for this sort of thing. Like I said, there are much better skill systems for adjudicating extended debates, and that sort of thing. The objective alignment is a big roadblock, but, the system itself, IMO, doesn't lend itself to what I would want to get out of this kind of game. I guess at the end of the day, I can honestly say that it's just not for me. [/QUOTE]

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